Here lies the body of William JonesWho all his life collected bones,...Till Death, that grim and boney spectre,That universal bone collector,Boned old Jones, so neat and tidy,And here he lies, all bona fide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn individual; with a pair of dull-cruel-lo...oking black eyes, and as much Parliamentary intellect and silent-rage in him ... as I have ever seen in any man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In the game of "Whist for two," usually called "Correspondence," the lady plays what card she likes: the gentleman simply follows ...suit. If she leads with "Queen of Diamonds," however, he may, if he likes, offer the "Ace of Hearts": and, if she plays "Queen of Hearts," and he happens to have no Heart left, he usually plays "Knave of Clubs."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Is a man too strong and fierce for society, and by temper and position a bad citizen,--a morose ruffian, with a dash of the pirate... in him;Mnature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters, who are getting along in the dame's classes at the village school, and love and fear for them smooths his grim scowl to courtesy. Thus she contrives to intenerate the granite and the feldspar, takes the boar out and puts the lamb in, and keeps her balance true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Scholars and thinkers are prone to an effeminate habit, and shrink if a coarser shout comes up from the street, or a brutal act is... recorded in the journals. The Medical College piles up in its museum its grim monsters of morbid anatomy, and there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history,--persecutions, inquisitions, St. Bartholomew, massacres, devilish lives, Nero, Caesar Borgia, Marat, Lopez; men in whom every ray of humanity was extinguished, patricides, matricides and whatever moral monsters. These are not cheerful facts, but they do not disturb a healthy mind; they require of us a patience as robust as the energy that attacks us, and an unresting exploration of final causes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The lords of life, the lords of life,--I saw them pass...In their own guise,Like and unlike,Portly and grim,--Use and surprise,Surface and dream,Succession swift, and spectral wrong,Temperament without a tongue,And the inventor of the gameOmnipresent without name;--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »